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Crossroads

Crossroads Tracks
1. Boom Boom
2. Honey in Your Hips
3. Baby What's Wrong
4. I Wish You Would
5. Certain Girl
6. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
7. I Ain't Got You
8. For Your Love
9. Got to Hurry
10. Lonely Years
11. Bernard Jenkins
12. Hideaway
13. All Your Love
14. Ramblin' on My Mind
15. Have You Ever Loved a Woman [Live]
16. Wrapping Paper
17. I Feel Free
18. Spoonful
19. Lawdy Mama [#]
20. Strange Brew
21. Sunshine of Your Love
22. Tales of Brave Ulysses
23. Steppin' Out [#]
24. Anyone for Tennis
25. White Room
26. Crossroads [Live]
27. Badge
28. Presence of the Lord - Blind Faith
29. Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
30. Sleeping in the Ground [#] - Blind Faith
31. Comin' Home
32. Blues Power
33. After Midnight [Alternate Mix][#]
34. Let It Rain
35. Tell the Truth
36. Roll It Over
37. Layla
38. Mean Old World - Duane Allman
39. Key to the Highway [Live][#]
40. Crossroads [Live][#]
41. Got to Get Better in a Little While [#]
42. Evil [#]
43. One More Chance [#]
44. Mean Old Frisco [#]
45. Snake Lake Blues [#]
46. Let It Grow
47. Ain't That Lovin' You [#]
48. Motherless Children
49. I Shot the Sheriff [Live][#]
50. Better Make It Through Today
51. Sky Is Crying
52. I Found a Love [#]
53. (When Things Go Wrong) It Hurts Me Too [#]
54. What'cha Gonna Do? [#]
55. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
56. Someone Like You
57. Hello Old Friend
58. Sign Language
59. Further on up the Road [Live][#]
60. Lay Down Sally
61. Wonderful Tonight
62. Cocaine
63. Promises
64. If I Don't Be There by Morning
65. Double Trouble [Live]
66. I Can't Stand It
67. Shape You're In
68. Heaven Is One Step Away
69. She's Waiting
70. Too Bad
71. Miss You
72. Wanna Make Love to You
73. After Midnight [Version]
Eric Clapton - Crossroads
Crossroads Review
Including both his band work (with the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, and Derek and the Dominos) and his long, varied solo career, this four-CD set does a spectacular job in gathering several decades' worth of Clapton's best. There are the requisite classics--"Layla," "Blues Power," "After Midnight," "Further On Up the Road," "Crossroads," and "I Shot the Sheriff," among many others--some of them in previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings. Released in 1988, when only superstars were granted the box set, Crossroads became the blueprint for what such a retrospective should be. For its scope, this box skims the cream of Clapton's large output. --Daniel Durchholz


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Travelling through Clapton's periods
4
This collection is the best box set i have ever found and it has all of Clapton's best works.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2005-07-28
the ultimate box set
5
I am typically not a big fan of box sets or greatest hits collections. This, however, is a must have for anyone who is interested Clapton or rock n' roll history.
You don't just get Clapton on this. You get John Mayall, Cream, Bob Dylan etc. All the bands he's been in.
It is revelation to see just how pervasive Clapton was as a guitar player. He's done it all and played in every style imaginable while still maintaining his signature sound. He shines on every track.
This collection is well thought out and arranged. It does not simply exploit the greatest hits. There are many gems on here that you won't be able find anywhere else. Moreover, you get a real sense of his development as a musician and singer.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2004-07-04
Exceptional cross-licensed career overview
5
Eric Clapton has been through several different phases musically. He started off at sixteen or seventeen, singing Chuck Berry's "Roll Over, Beethoven" at a nightclub in London, and according to some accounts he didn't even have a guitar of his own at the time (the tougher, slightly older "in-crowd", which included Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Keith Richards, called him "Plimsolls" because of his habit of shyly looking down at his shoes while he sang).

Then came the British blooze of John Mayall and the Yardbirds, the fiery power-trio Cream, the short-lived Blind Faith, the phenomenal Derek & The Dominoes, and the many solo albums which quickly came to include as much pop, country, reggae and music hall as they did blues.
And it's all here. Every truely essential song Eric Clapton recorded during the 60s, 70s and 80s is here, along with a few live tracks and rarities. Not many, and not enough to really interest the serious Clapton collector, but this box set wasn't meant to add a new dimension to EC's catalogue, it was meant to present a complete overview of his long and varied career, and it does that perfectly.

"Crossroads" came out two years after Bob Dylan's "Biograph", and helped establish the boxed set as a viable proposition for record companies, and it includes seventy-three of Clapton's and his various bands' best songs.
It leans quite heavily towards his 60s and early 70s output (only about a dozen songs were cut after '74), and draws nine Yardbirds-tracks, six Bluesbreakers-tunes, twelve Cream-tunes, and three Blind Faith-tunes from EC's checkered past, as well as a Delaney & Bonnie-song ("Comin' Home"), and no fewer than ten Derek & The Dominoes-chestnuts (they only ever put out one studio album).
And then there's my favorite track of the whole lot, a supremely catchy, acoustic, slide guitar-driven rendition of T-Bone Walker's "Mean Old World" performed by Clapton and Duane Allman (and mistakenly credited to Little Walter Jacobs).

But there's a lot of other great songs here....in fact, there aren't very many songs here which aren't great.
I don't agree completely with the compliers' choices as far as Clapton's 80s output goes, but most of this set is simply magnificent.
This may not include everything you could ever want to own by Eric Clapton (he has made music since, and he cut some great live records in the 70s and early 80s), but it is a very thorough and well-chosen collection, and if you're a casual fan of bands like Cream and the Yardbirds, this set is pretty much everything by those two combos you'll ever need to own.
"Crossroads" came out fifteen years ago, but is still one of the finest career summaries on the market.
Highly recommended.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2004-07-31